stagnation
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These bottlenecks put distance between today’s cost and tomorrow’s reward, creating another potential reason for AI’s valuation stagnation.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Iran’s economic stagnation has worsened with a war that has devastated much of its infrastructure and may soon crater the oil industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It’s a dynamic that has echoes of Japan’s postbubble stagnation, though China’s trajectory is still far from sealed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
With the hands of central banks tied, investors are worried about the risk of stagflation -- a period of economic stagnation and inflation -- such as what happened after the first oil shock in 1973.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
Yet, once those ideas were challenged, progress was breathtakingly rapid—after fifteen centuries of stagnation, there have been fewer than another five centuries from the time of Copernicus to the present day.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing stagnation
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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President Trump's First State of The Union Address (2018)
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